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The Sakura Owner Hand Camera (さくらオナー手提暗函)[1] is a Japanese box camera made by Rokuoh-sha, the manufacturing branch of Konishi (predecessor of Konica). It was reportedly released in January 1907.[2]

Some sources suggest that the Sakura Owner was inspired by contemporary Newman & Guardia models such as the Universal Pattern B.[3] However this page at R. Konishi Rokuoh-sha points to the Hoffman detective cameras, which were imported by Konishi, and of which the Sakura Owner seems to be a direct copy.

The Sakura Owner is said to exist in tefuda (8×10.5cm), nimaigake (4×5in) and kabine (12×16.5cm) formats.[4] The only known illustration shows a box-shaped camera, focused by sliding the front part in and out.[5] The lens is recessed inside the front part and covered by a flap hinged at the top. There are two brilliant finders buried inside the front part at the photographer's left, one at the top for vertical pictures, and the other on the side for horizontal pictures. The rear part has a handle at the top. It is said that a light-tight changing bag is attached to the back of the camera, containing twelve film plates and allowing to reload the camera in daylight.[6]

Sources say that the lenses offered for the Sakura Owner were the Carl Zeiss Double Protar Ser.VIIa and Goerz Dagor Ser.III.[7] One source says that the body only was sold for ¥55 in 4×5in size, and for ¥65 in 12×16.5cm size.[8]

No surviving example of the Sakura Owner is known. However two comparable detective cameras made by Konishi Honten are pictured in this page at R. Konishi Rokuoh-sha. It is not known if these were made before or after the Sakura Owner.

Notes

  1. The spelling "Owner" is used in Lewis, pp.19–20, to render the katakana オナー, but the Roman name is not confirmed and "Honour" is another plausible alternative. The words tesage anbako (手提暗函) are rendered as "Hand Camera" in the Konishi catalogue dated December 1911. In modern sources, the same words are often translated as "Portable Camera", and the camera is called "Sakura Owner Portable". The Japanese word anbako, literally meaning "dark box", was forged after "camera obscura" and was used for cameras until the 1910s approximately.
  2. Lewis, p.19, and chronology from the official company history Shashin to tomo ni hyaku-nen, reproduced in Tanaka, p.94 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.10. The date is simply given as 1907 in the chronology at R. Konishi Rokuoh-sha.
  3. Lewis, p.19, Sakai, p.19 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.10.
  4. Sakai, p.18 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.10, and this page at R. Konishi Rokuoh-sha. The tefuda model is not mentioned in Lewis, p.19, or in the official chronology from the official company history Shashin to tomo ni hyaku-nen, reproduced in Tanaka, p.94 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.10.
  5. Illustration reproduced in Lewis, p.19, in Sakai, p.18 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.10, in this page of the Center of the History of Japanese Industrial Technology, and in this page at R. Konishi Rokuoh-sha.
  6. Sakai, p.19 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.10, mentions twelve film plates in a "manual changing box" (手送りチェンジングボックス). Lewis, p.19, mentions a "light-tight bag attached to the camera body".
  7. Sakai, p.19 of Kurashikku Kamera Senka no.10, and this page at R. Konishi Rokuoh-sha.
  8. See this page and this page of the Center of the History of Japanese Industrial Technology.

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